It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.